History for August 6 - On-This-Day.com Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809, Louella Parsons 1881, Sir Alexander Fleming 1881 Lucille Ball 1911, Robert Mitchum 1917, Andy Warhol 1928 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. 1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time)
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